Hi Adam, in general, I support this idea, though I am afraid that it might turn into a pretty subjective personal favourites list over time. But let's see, this concept somehow works for the games-finest package as well. Am Dienstag, den 01.01.2019, 02:05 +0100 schrieb Adam Borowski: > The first category would be stuff like dejavu (yes, you can end up > with it > missing). Perhaps cantarell which I hate but which some gnomey > packages use > without depending (and then look like shit). Probably noto (see also > second > category). Agreed, fonts-dejavu-core is a must. And so is fonts-cantarell, at least for Gnome users. Do other desktops like e.g. KDE or Xfce have their own "system UI font"? > The next would be obviously Windows compatibles: for XP era there's > fonts-liberation, for current MS Office crosextra. These days, some > webpages/etc also assume anything is Android so noto is also needed. For the classic XP era fonts we have three packages to choose from: fonts-liberation2 | fonts-croscore | fonts-liberation. I agree that fonts-crosextra-* is a must, too. What is missing in this regard is a package representing the classic 35 Postscript core fonts. Here we have a choice of fonts-urw-core35 | fonts-texgyre and probably fonts-freefont-otf. > For the third part, everyone wants symbols to work. We'd also want > emojis, > and coloured fonts are problematic (they don't work in most > programs). As I don't have a strong opinion about the third group, but I guess having fonts-noto installed just for the sake of unicode completeness will not hurt. > And for the fourth -- well, it's not like any boxes you'd install > Debian GUI > on have less than ten gigs of disk space, so there's no reason to be > too > thrifty... This is the group I worry about a bit. Everybody has his or her pet fonts and I am not sure if wanting them promoted is a reason enough to have them in a "core fonts" meta-package. But, again, time will tell and probably this turns out to become a pretty usefull list of packages and a meta-package that you would want to install on every system. The libreoffice meta-package already has a pretty complete list (and so has fontconfig-config), so maybe this would serve as a good starting point. Cheers, - Fabian
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